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Re: st: summary tables for categorical variables
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Donald Spady <[email protected]>
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Statalist Statalist <[email protected]>
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Re: st: summary tables for categorical variables
Date
Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:59:04 -0700
Nick
Yes. I found that also and it seems to be just what I want.
Many thanks for all your help.
DOn
On Feb 11, 2014, at 5:26 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know what -tabw- is, but I didn't recommend it.
>
> -tabm- from -tab_chi- offers the options of -tabulate-. The help explains:
>
> tabulate_options are options allowed with tabulate varname1 varname2.
>
> Consider
>
> set obs 100
> forval j = 1/9 {
> gen y`j' = ceil(10 * runiform())
> }
> tabm y*, row
> tabm y*, col
>
> Nick
> [email protected]
>
> On 11 February 2014 22:58, Donald Spady <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Nick. Thanks for the fast response. Your suggestion of mrtab is close, but not quite what I need. mrtab puts the variables down the left side of the table, but only gives a summary of the frequency of the responses. I want to have (for e.g. 6 columns: 1 for the variable name and 5 for the possible responses (e.g. SA A N D SD). I dont see any option within mrtab to do that.
>> I looked at tabw which is much closer to what is needed, but it does not give the option of say percentage rather than frequency. I know that is nitpicking, but Stata is so extensible I wonder if anyone has looked at this.
>
> On Feb 11, 2014, at 1:40 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> Sounds like
>>>
>>> -mrtab- (SJ)
>>>
>>> -tabm- (-tab_chi- on SSC)
>
> On 11 February 2014 20:23, Donald Spady <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>>> I want to create a table for categorical variables that is something like tabstat where the variable names are in a left hand column and, instead of statistics in the columns to the right, I want the contents of the categories that the variable contains.
>>>> For example
>>>> Varname "likeDon" SA:10, A:5, N:3, D:1 SD 2 Miss/NA: 2
>>>> varname "likeNick" SA:50, A;20, N:3, D:12, SD: 0 Miss/NA:4
>>>> varname "likeSue" and so on
>>>> where SA A N D and SD are the possible responses.
>>>>
>>>> Is there anything in Stata that can do this. If so, what and how?
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